If you don't hear of candidates through word of mouth the first step in hiring is usually keyword matching based on languages and technologies. Although that's

If you don't hear of candidates through word of mouth the first step in hiring is usually keyword matching based on languages and technologies. Although that's kind of bullshit, it's a simple way to greatly reduce the pool of candidates. I'm not sure getting rid of it makes things easier. If you start hiring mostly generalists what will you use as a first-pass filter?